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Highland Beach Florida Map

Explore Highland Beach, Florida, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Highland Beach, Florida

How to Use This Highland Beach, Florida Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Highland Beach, Florida. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Florida or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Highland Beach.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Highland Beach
State	Florida (FL)
County	Palm Beach County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	26.411621
Longitude	-80.064352
Population	4,295
Density	3088.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	33487
Area Code	954, 754
County Seat	West Palm Beach
School District	Palm Beach County School District

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About Highland Beach, Florida

Highland Beach is a locality in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,295. The population density is 3088.1 people per km². Highland Beach is located at 26.4116°N, 80.0644°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Highland Beach is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 33487.

Highland Beach occupies a slender, sun-bleached sliver of land pressed between the restless Atlantic and the quieted backwaters of the coast. It lies 3.0 miles north-northeast of Boca Raton, FL (from Boca Raton, FL: bearing 21°T), and is situated 6.0 miles north-northeast of Deerfield Beach. The air here holds a heavy, salt-sweet moisture, a subtropical breath that softens the edges of the horizon until the sky and the sea seem to dissolve into a single, shimmering gray. Vegetation clings to the sandy soil in resilient patches of palmetto scrub, while the Milani Property remains an essential anchor for the local ecology, preserving a fragile interface of earth and tide where the sand yields to the rhythmic pulse of the surf. To the west, the El Rio Canal channels the inland drainage, carving a deliberate path through the landscape that hums with the slow, steady movement of water toward the distant Boca Raton Inlet.

Highland Beach emerged as a quiet enclave for those seeking the seclusion of the shoreline, eventually shifting from an isolated stretch of dunes into a residential refuge defined by its vertical density and the seasonal cycle of its inhabitants. The local economy revolves around the maintenance of this coastal lifestyle, supporting a rhythm dictated by the tides and the arrival of winter residents who seek the warmth of the southern sun. Life unfolds in the shadow of high-rise structures that stand like sentinels against the glare, looking out toward the horizon where the current pulls steadily toward the Boca Raton Inlet. While Lake Worth lies nine miles to the north, the focus here remains fixed on the immediate, shifting boundary of the tide, a place where the history of the land is written not in monuments, but in the constant reconfiguration of the beach after every storm.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Gopher Tortoise Preserve (City of Boca Raton) (Local Conservation Area) — 0.9 mi, 280° W
Rosemary Ridge Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 1.0 mi, 304° NW
Hidden Lakes (Local Park) — 1.2 mi, 277° W
Milani Property (Local Recreation) — 1.3 mi, 183° S
Robert P. Miller Park (Local Park) — 1.6 mi, 335° NW
Yamato Scrub Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.6 mi, 269° W
Delray Swim & Tennis Center (Local Recreation) — 1.8 mi, 328° NW
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Museum) — 3.4 mi, 202° S
Organelle (Public Artwork) — 3.5 mi, 220° SW
Delray Beach Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 3.6 mi, 352° N
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Monument) — 3.7 mi, 199° S
Living Room Theater (Cinema) — 3.8 mi, 218° SW
Seaboard Air Line Dining Car 6113 (Attraction) — 5.0 mi, 198° S
Seaboard Air Line Lounge Car 6603 (Attraction) — 5.0 mi, 198° S
Challenger Memorial Lantern (Monument) — 5.9 mi, 281° W
Chie no Wa Wisdom Ring (Monument) — 5.9 mi, 282° W
Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park (Theatre) — 6.0 mi, 220° SW
South Florida Railway Museum (Museum) — 7.5 mi, 209° SW
Zabava Studio (Attraction) — 7.9 mi, 255° W
Creation Science Museum (Museum) — 8.7 mi, 210° SW
Max’s Barber (Attraction) — 8.8 mi, 199° S
Melissa & Starling's Performing Arts and Tutoring (Arts Centre) — 8.8 mi, 347° N
Nathan D Rosen Museum Gallery (Museum) — 9.0 mi, 246° SW
Daggerwing Nature Center (Nature Reserve) — 10.2 mi, 257° W
Lofthus Underwater Archaeological Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 10.3 mi, 009° N
Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 10.3 mi, 286° W · 149k acres
Canyon Amphitheater (Theatre) — 10.9 mi, 316° NW
Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 15.0 mi, 254° W
Biscayne National Park (National Park) — 51.7 mi, 188° S · 346k acres
Everglades National Park (National Park) — 58.8 mi, 220° SW · 3.0M acres

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